WHAT SURVIVES: SONIC RESIDUES IN BREATHING BUILDINGS
March 2006 at The Performance Space ~ Curator, Gail Priest.
Consisting of three major gallery-based sound installations and a program of commissioned works for two sound stations in the building, What Survives explores the real and imagined remnants of human presence in architecture.
The structures we build bear silent witness to human behaviour—what have the walls, beams and girders absorbed and what sonic secrets...
KelleRadioActive ~ IASKA (October ~ December 2005).
The history of broadcast media and communications technology have developed at an alarming pace over the last century and it is easy to forget the central role that radio has played in rural Australian communities, both as a form of entertainment and as a vital link.
The residency at The International Art Space Kellerberrin (Western Australia) developed a sound-sculpture project that investigates the history of...
Monsanto may have stolen the Native Medicines
Novalis may own your cell-line
and Microsoft may have locked up all the picture archives.
But we’ve got your number!
Exhibited.
Watch This Space, Alice Springs, 1996.
Materials. Steel wrenches, Copper Antennae, Scientific Glassware, Grubs.
Dimensions 10m x 3m x 3m.
Notes
My approach to the sonic domain has always been informed by a Sculptor’s perspective, emphasising the experiential nature of sound that links sonic events to the dynamic, material eventsthat produce them, as well as to the architectures and environments that contain and propagate them.The current work “Interferences”...
The Audio Nomad project is an exciting new development in Australian Research and Development that combines the skills and talents of Artists with those of Scientists in an imaginative collaboration that is developing technologies to support and deliver creative public sound-art events. Our specific interests are in location sensitive, mobile audio systems that generate immersive sound experiences. Our approach is to mould our research and development around the real...
Between June 2004 and February 2005 Nigel Helyer worked as an Artist in Residence at the Paul Scherrer Institut, one of Switzerland’s largest research laboratories. The Following is extracted from the Institut publication ‘Aktuell’.
How might an Artist approach the Paul Scherrer Institut, which by any standards, is a complex intellectual and social organism? My strategy, simplistic though it may seem, has been to imagine PSI as eco-system, or more specifically,...
The “Chant’” audio installation on show at the National Gallery of Australia as part of the National Sculpture Award, bathing the space with the Om mantra.
The ten bronze Buddhas were cast from a 400 year old Buddha image in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Each Buddha is fitted with an FM radio system and the installation is fed with a mini-FM audio signal. Originally mounted in the vaulted foyer of the AGNSW as part of the “Buddha; Radiant...
“LifeBoat” is a prosaic title indicating both the physical reality (the project is contained within a fully weatherproofed ship’s lifeboat) and somewhat more conceptually, as the lifeboat has become home to a Biotechnology lab; a home to the processes of life itself. On a metaphorical level, this project is designed to deal with concepts of sustainability, survival and notions of biological, cultural and ideological re-generation, and naturally its obverse, the...
Year : 1992
Exhibited. As part of the Working in Public project, John Barrett-Lennard and ArtSpace, Sydney, 1992.
Materials. Steel Bell, Performer, Radiophonic Broadcast.
Dimensions. 25m x 12m overall installation ~ performance space with Nationwide live broadcast at Midnight for 21 days.
Notes. The Story so far…Catalogue text for Working in Public.
Field Notes from An UnRequited Space.
I found a small transistor…sometimes I get batteries as...
A Sound-sculpture installation located in two sites.
Exhibited. The Muu Galerie, Helsinki, Finland and at the Cholera Basin, Helsinki Harbour 1996.
Materials. x2 Bronze Bells, x32 Voltaic cells and electronic circuits, audio equipment with ISDN telephone line. Zinc wall texts.
Dimension. Gallery installation :- 6m x 6m, Harbour installation :- variable.
Toll. This project was realised in the Muu Galerie, Helsinki, October 1996 as part of the “Sounds From Elsewhere”...